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Movie Reviews
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Hugh Grant Is In His Peak Villain Era In New Mormon Horror Film [Trailer]
08 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Although the premise is compelling all on its own, it is Hugh Grant’s presence that really makes it a chilling watch.
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‘Joker 2’ Getting Mass Walkouts After Fans Realise The True Nature Of The Sequel
08 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The hotly anticipated film hit theatres on Friday and is already underwhelming at the box office, with ‘mass walkouts’ reported across the board.
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‘Game Of Thrones’ Creator George R.R. Martin Calls Out TV & Film Adaptations For Being Worse Than Source Material
31 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.”
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The 2024 Cannes Movies We’re Excited To See [Trailers]
23 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s a Brooklyn sex worker’s fairy-tale romance involving a Russian oligarch’s son, a biopic on Donald Trump in his younger, pre-fascist years, and a musical involving drug cartels.
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Incredible Story Of Women’s World Cup Goes Way Beyond Football In Doccie That The Guardian Awarded Five Stars [Trailer]
06 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A new documentary is about to hit the big screen about an incredible event that vanished from the historical record.
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“Purest Science Fiction Experience” – Watch The Trailer For The TIFF Hit ‘The Beast’
16 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Bertrand Bonello’s science fiction movie The Beast was one of the films from 2023’s Toronto International Film Festival that was a right hit.
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They’re Calling This One Of The Best Netflix Movies Of The Year
11 Dec 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A lot of people are saying that Netflix’s best movie for the year is director Sam Esmail’s sharp, hugely enjoyable apocalyptic thriller starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke.
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Eye-Catching Movie ‘Saltburn’ Gets Mixed Reviews, But The “Wicked Tale Of Privilege And Desire” Is Still Intriguing [Trailer]
20 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
One can’t help but be fascinated by the new film by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell featuring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan and Richard E. Grant.
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Taylor Swift Rakes In Whopping $129.8 Million In Another Movie Match-Up
25 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
In a movie match-up almost as unlikely as “Barbenheimer”, Taylor Swift’s concert film totally dominated in cinemas alongside Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.
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‘The Creator’ Dubbed An “Original” And “Exhilarating Sci-Fi” That Takes A Stand For AI [Trailer&Review]
29 Sep 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s an “intriguing, stimulating, exhilarating movie”, which does a grand job of addressing the great issue of our age, AI.
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The ‘Barbenheimer’ Results Are In – Here’s Which Movie Did The Best In The Box Office
25 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Overall, it was revealed that the ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ double feature resulted in the fourth-biggest box office weekend in cinematic history. But there is only one clear winner.
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Now It’s Time For The ‘Oppenheimer’ Review – “Extraordinary”, “Ambitious”, “Must-See” But Not Perfect
20 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Everyone is wondering the same thing; could this be Christopher Nolan’s best film so far?
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Murder Mystery 2
05 Apr 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Murder Mystery’ was a hotchpotch of murder mystery hijinks, a silly distraction that attempted to upscale the fun of ‘Clue’ with just as many oddballs.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Stella Murders
28 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Stella Murders’ comes from the documentarian behind the SAFTA award-winning ‘Devilsdorp’, a provocative series that covered a spate of killings known as The Appointment Murders and Satanic Murders in Krugersdorp.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rise – The Siya Kolisi Story
22 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Through ‘Chasing the Sun’ and ‘Rassie: The Official Film’, the trophy’s guts-and-glory fairytale has been reframed from several perspectives, shifting from the maverick coach to his star captain for this documentary.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ted K
15 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Ted K’ is a biographical crime drama chronicle of Ted Kaczynski’s life in Lincoln, Montana, in the years before his capture as The Unabomber.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Worst Person in the World
08 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Worst Person in the World’ (‘Verdens verste menneske’) received two Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Top Gun – Maverick
01 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Top Gun’ was released in 1986, pitting Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer against each other as fierce rivals at the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics programme, better known as Top Gun. The long-awaited sequel to his iconic ’80s movie takes place 30 years later, as Maverick is called on to lead a talented squad of fresh-faced recruits on a critical bombing raid in Iran.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Your Place or Mine
22 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Your Place or Mine’ is a sweet romantic comedy from writer turned director Aline Brosh McKenna, featuring a charming cast and an unexpected co-lead pairing in Reece Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Moonage Daydream
15 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Brett Morgen is the visionary director behind ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’, a biographical documentary about the late Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain. Inspired by Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, it’s been Morgen’s ambition to create similarly eclectic depictions, sanctioned by the Bowie estate for ‘Moonage Daydream’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rassie – The Official Film
08 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Johan “Rassie” Erasmus has been a rugby fan, player, coach and director over his sports career, culminating in winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. A major proponent of the overwhelming success story that characterised the Springboks in what became their third World Cup victory after 1995 and 2003’s dramatic finals, the story was beautifully captured in a rousing documentary series called ‘Chasing the Sun’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: White Noise
25 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Once regarded as unfilmable, Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’ has now been successfully adapted to film by ‘Marriage Story’ writer-director Noah Baumbach, making it much easier for students studying post-modernism to get the gist without having to read the book.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Menu
18 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Menu’ is an elegant yet prickly dark comedy horror from Mark Mylod, which serves as a poetic and political allegory, a spicy blend of art and entertainment.
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A Rare Five-Stars From The Guardian – Cate Blanchett’s New Film, ‘TÁR’ [Trailer]
12 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Cate Blanchett took home a Best Actress Golden Globe award for her “piercing” performance in ‘TÁR’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Am Here
11 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s amazing to think that we live in a society where there are still people who deny the Holocaust ever happened. This is the launchpad for an intimate memoir from Ella Blumenthal, whose compassionate letter to a high profile influencer and denialist became the inception for this vivid chronicle of her storied life in the life-affirming hybrid documentary, ‘I Am Here’.
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The Guardian’s Brutal Two Sentence Review Of Latest Banderas / Bosworth Flick, ‘The Enforcer’ [Trailer]
09 Jan 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The critics are having a ball with this predictable crime thriller that “limps” between Miami sleaze clichés.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: North Hollywood
14 Dec 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘North Hollywood’ is a biographical coming-of-age sports comedy drama, loosely based on writer-director Mikey Alfred’s life and relationship with his father. The film stars Ryder McLaughlin, a real-life skateboarder who does most of his own stunts to create an added level of authenticity in this vivid slice-of-life drama.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sr.
07 Dec 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Robert Downey Jr. leverages his fame by introducing this documentary directed by Chris Smith, he serves as a sounding board, attempting to redirect the spotlight and there to coax out the real Robert Downey Sr.
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Docuseries Pulls Back The Curtain On Branson’s Life [Trailer]
06 Dec 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Sir Richard Branson, one of the world’s most inspiring risk-takers and big-shot businessmen, has a reputation for consistently rolling the dice.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bill & Ted Face The Music
30 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
For a few decades, it seemed that ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ in 1991 was the final chapter of the film franchise, but since the turn of the millennium a script for a long overdue sequel has been pinballed about Hollywood.
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